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  • 30 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

In late February, Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman spoke with two former MBA students, Scott Randall ('87) and Glen Meakem ('91), to discuss their perspectives on organizing markets in a new and evolving economy and what... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

A warning to CEOs and other top executives in high-pressure positions: Job stress could shave years off your life, causing you to die younger than lower-level workers, new research suggests. After all, modern CEOs face taxing work... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies can ensure their own long-term sustainability by contributing to a sustainable society.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some kind of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

obvious that we must tax the hell out of vacant properties and/or urban land speculation?" Others suggested non-tax solutions. One such proposal was put forth by Mok Tuck Sung: "(The wealthy) should be encouraged to participate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • June 2003 (Revised June 2006)
  • Case

Highlands' Garden Village

By: Arthur I Segel, Eve Bould and Hank Midgley
It was March 2003 and Chuck Perry was awaiting the arrival of his New York-based business partner, Jonathan Rose. He and Rose had begun Highlands' Garden Village, their latest mixed-use, mixed-income development project. In 1996, they had optioned the unused Elitch... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Urban Development; Housing; Society; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; Colorado
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  • 23 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

contributes to the literature on behavioral strategy, and highlights unique challenges of starting a new firm in a nascent industry. Further, by identifying the mechanisms through which legitimation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Research Summary

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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
  • Web

ICIC - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

to capital providers Guide financial institutions to new investment opportunities and some of the world's fastest-growing companies Identify critical factors for economic growth in urban environments and... View Details
  • Research Summary

Supply Chain Inventory Planning

My work studies management decision-making in demand and supply planning contexts with a focus on forecasting and inventory planning decisions.  I examine these decision-making processes from both a supply chain (i.e. across firm) and an... View Details

  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of lenders helps fuel credit booms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

forecasting, despite a number of characteristics that make it a challenge to fit to a dynamic supply chain environment, to be effective in that context. We further show that the forecasting process, together with the supporting mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 1996
  • Supplement

Cleveland Turnaround: Leadership in Action

By: James E. Austin, Jaan Elias and Andrea L Strimling
Consists of three separate parts. Part 1, The Cleveland Turnaround, describes Cleveland's decline until its bankruptcy in 1978. This is followed by the remedial actions taken by community leaders, starting with the election of a new mayor, the formation of new... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Urban Development; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
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  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing units. Hoping to spark a burst of new construction, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

as African-Americans relocate from rural South to northern cities Influence: Medium-High 20 1920 s 19 Population of urban centers overtakes that of rural communities Tight immigration restrictions Increase in divorce rates Influence:... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
  • 15 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

What is welcome and all too rare? Leaders who care about building great institutions, not just profits. What sets these leaders apart in their practice and outlook? Harvard Business School's Michael Beer in his new book, Higher Ambition:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

retailer which opened four new stores; two openings occur in retail trading areas which had been previously served by direct channels alone and two openings occur in retail trading areas which had been served by both direct channels and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

in India, especially in urban areas, is that when the monsoons hit, water fills the streets, leading to a lot of congestion," Sadun explains. "Traffic becomes a nightmare. It's like dealing with the worst snowstorm in Boston." According... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel